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This subject explores the key concepts and debates concerning the nature of knowledge, how it relates to ecological and other ideological issues and the position of indigenous knowledge systems in these concerns. Science will be examined as a culturally specific approach to the environment and its protection and preservation. Indigenous knowledge systems, modes of production and conceptions of technology will be explored to assess what they may offer in terms of generating new approaches to environmental management issues. Some of the guiding ideas relating to key concepts such as human being, nature, ecology, civilised, wild, resource and conservation will be examined from a historical and cultural perspective. The focus of the subject is to understand eco-cosmologies in a variety of cultural contexts ranging from Australia to Asia and to explore the intersection of local with global environmental politics.

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[Pre-requisite] TO UNDERTAKE THIS SUBJECT, STUDENTS MUST HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED 9 CREDIT POINTS OF TERTIARY STUDY.

[Pre-requisite] TO UNDERTAKE THIS SUBJECT, STUDENTS MUST HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED 9 CREDIT POINTS OF TERTIARY STUDY. Offerings: All

[Anti-requisite] AN3013 AND AR2415 AND AR3415

[Anti-requisite] AN3013 AND AR2415 AND AR3415 Offerings: All

AN2013 - Culture, Knowledge and Environment

Culture, Knowledge and Environment

Examine issues associated with culturally specific approaches to the environment within a broader global context

Articulate how Indigenous and scientific knowledge intersect and the extent to which power relations and colonial, bureaucratic and political contexts determine the relevance given to each

Describe the diversity of knowledge systems, modes of production and conceptions of technology and how these relate to environmental concerns

Analyse Indigenous conceptual schemes and practices in a non-hierarchical manner

Analyse disagreements between science and Indigenous knowledge in historical and contemporary power structures